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The resounding success Richard Strauss's second opera Feuersnot experienced upon it's 1902 Dresden premiere more than made up for the failure several years prior of his first, Guntram. Feuersnot is a lively one-act drama about the ancient Bavarian...

Beethoven's only opera Fidelio never ceases to fascinate audiences with it's spellbinding story of true love. Staged by renowned opera director Flim, J?rgenm this production is the outstanding result of the teamwork of the orchestra and chorus of the...

Beethoven's only opera Fidelio never ceases to fascinate audiences with it's spellbinding story of true love. Staged by renowned opera director Flim, J?rgenm this production is the outstanding result of the teamwork of the orchestra and chorus of the...

Orlando teaches all of us that love is often responsible for our loss of reason," runs a line from Act 3 of the opera. It is a modest moral, and perhaps one not demanding of the dramatic finesse and musical diversity that Handel serves up in Orlando - fo

Aribert Reimann's "Lear" is a milestone in the tragic opera of the 20th century. Ever since it's 1978 premiere at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, it has made it's triumphal progress around the world in more than thirty productions as the most...

Verdi, Giuseppe's Ernani is a vibrant adaptation for the lyric stage of one of the most flamboyant dramas by the French poet. Both the composer and his librettist have combined Hugo's verbal eloquence with the right musical temperament. Perfect example...

Verdi, Giuseppe's Ernani is a vibrant adaptation for the lyric stage of one of the most flamboyant dramas by the French poet. Both the composer and his librettist have combined Hugo's verbal eloquence with the right musical temperament. Perfect example...

Handel's operas are now so thoroughly a part of modern musical life that you might think every major opera house welcomes them. But until November 2010, when it introduced an absorbing new production of Alcina, the Vienna Staatsoper resisted them, not hav

An homage in equal parts to "Frankenstein", "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", and the erotic films of late Italian horror auteur Joe D'Amato, Hyde's Secret Nightmare is itself a wild erotic horror film from the highly prolific Italian producer/director...

When this production of Handel's Ariodante - directed by David Alden and conducted by Ivor Bolton - had it's premiere, it met with unanimous critical and popular acclaim. Alden, as a theatrical modernist, transformed the opera seria into an...

A production of the LA Opera House ground-breaking Recovered Voices project, highlighting the works of composers affected by the Holocaust. Walter Braunfels, a strong advocate of neo-Romanticism, made significant contributions to the world of twentieth-ce

This opera is supported by a musical variety of great arias, short duets and amazing choir passages that add to the unveiled expression of feelings. As a special guest the Argentinian Tenor Jos? Cura stands out with his fascinating singing and acting per